Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Dionne Warwick

The whole recorded history of man is strewn with the wreckage of the great civilizations which have crumbled under price controls; and in forty centuries of human experience, there has never been

Irving S. Olds

The great thing is the start -- to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer -- and him for nothing.

Robert Collier

I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

Shia LaBeouf

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.

Terry Pratchett

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Berenice Abbott

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

All which tends not to the sole end is the type of it. For since there is only one end, all which does not lead to it in express terms is figurative.

Blaise Pascal

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

Pete Seeger, from testimony for

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

Olen Steinhauer

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Henry James